Improvement in bottles



UNITED STATES PATENT Fries.

R. BOEKLEN, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, AND H. T. BROWN, OF

` BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEM ENT VI N BOTTLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 11,353, dated July 25, 1854.

` To all whom it may concern..-

' of New York, have invented a new and useful` Improvement in Bottles; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and eXact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

Our improvement has reference to the construction of soda-water and other bottles used for containing liquids from which highly-ex pansible gases are evolved, or for containing any expansive fluids or gases.

The invention consists in providing the bottle with a passage or chamber, which extends from the mouth obliquely through the neck, and is of suitable form to receive the cork or stopper. By inserting the cork or stopper in a direction oblique to the neck it is only exposed laterally to the pressure of the gases within the bottle, and therefore cannot be eX- pelled thereby. By making the passage or chamber which receives the cork or stopper terminate in the mouth of the bottle, a free communication is left in a straight line through the neck withthe interior, and the same facilities are afforded for filling and cleaning and for pouring out the contents as in bottles constructed in the usual way.

Figure l of the accompanying drawings is an outside view of a bottle constructed according to our invention. Fig. 2 is a section of the same through its center, with the cork in its place; and Fig. 3 is a section of the neck and cork-chamber without the cork.

Similar letters refer to like parts in all the figures.

A is the neck of the bottle, which is perfectly straight to the mouth a. B is the corkchamber, one end of which terminates in the mouth c, from which it extends downward in an oblique direction and passes through one side of the neck A.

ln order to contain the cork-chamber, the neck A is enlarged externally on one side. The cork may be inserted either at the mouth a or at the lower opening, l), ofthe cork-chamber. The lower end, b, of the chamber may be closed, as indicated by red outline in Fig. 8, when the bottle is made. If the chamber is made open throughout, as represented in the other gures, no air will be compressed in the bottle by the corking operation; but if the lower end is closed a small quantity of air may be forced from the chamber into the bottle, which may be sometimes desirable.

It will be seen in Figs. 2 and 3 that there is the samestraight communication between the mouth va and the interior of our bottle as in the common bottle, and in bottling liquids the long straight bib of a bottlingcork or the spout of a funnel may loe inserted as far into the neck as is desirable. Vhen it is desired to pour out the contents, the bottle should be held in such a position that the side where is the lower end or opening, b, ofthe cork-chamber is uppermost, and the liquid will then flow out in an unbroken stream as slowly or rapidly as may be desired.

Vhen it is desired to clean the bottle, brushes may be inserted through the mouth a in the same manner as through the mouth of a conimon bottle.

Ve do not claim constructing the bottle with a cork aperture or passage across or through the neck, so that the cork, when inserted, is only exposed to lateral pressure of the gas within the bottle, as bottles have before been constructed with a transverse passage through the neck at right angles, or thereabout, thereto, which we regard as atotally different and inferior arrangement; nor yet do we claim as new in itself providing an opening at the top for thepurpose of cleaning, lling, Sto.; but

We do claim as new and useful and desire to secure by Letters Patent- Constructing the bottle with an oblique cork or stopper passage, B, arranged in relation to the mouth and neck of the bottle, as shown and described-that is, extending from the mouth a downward through the neck in such manner that, while the lateral pressure on the cork is preserved, the cork-passage in no way interferes with or obstructs the straight or direct communication through the mouth and neck of the bottle into the interior thereof, as and for the purposes set forth.

R. XV. FnNwIoii, A. R. Haier-ir. 

